If you notice fire blight among your pear trees, you can take several steps to prevent it from spreading or claiming the life of your tree: 1  Avoid using nitrogen-heavy fertilizers, which encourage rapid shoot growth on trees.  Prune out signs of disease during the summer and during the treeÃ­s dormant season.
Ruby Bridges: Ruby Bridges, American activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was at age six the youngest of a group of African American students to integrate
Bridges, now Ruby Bridges Hall, still lives in New Orleans with her husband, Malcolm Hall, and their four sons. After graduating from a desegregated high school, she worked as a travel agent for 15 years and later became a full-time parent.